Also in GB2RS this week…

| January 13, 2023

The RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park is looking to create a new wall display, illustrating some simple radio set-ups, to inspire newcomers to get started in amateur radio. If you would like to have a photo of your radio shack on display, please send in a good quality image, showing you operating your radio, or of your radio bench. The radio shack could be located anywhere from your loft, to your back bedroom, garden shed, in your car, or on a mountain top. Remember, the point of this project is to inspire people to get started in the hobby, so the photos need to show a diverse mix of operators and the radio set-up shouldn’t be overly complex. The most suitable photos will be selected and a montage display created, with the title Take a Look at my Radio Station. If you would like to enter, send your photos to nrc.support@rsgb.org.uk.

The Online Amateur Radio Community (OARC) provides amateur radio licence training via Zoom. The next Intermediate course is due to commence during the first week of February 2023. The course, which costs £5 to join, will run for eight weeks. The next Full licence training course will start on Wednesday, 17 April 2023 and run for nine weeks. The fee for the Full course is also £5. For further information please visit oarc.uk.

The GB2RS news service would like to increase the coverage of VHF FM and SSB broadcasts in Northern Ireland. Applicants must be an RSGB member holding a Full or Intermediate licence. If you would like to find out more, without any obligation, please contact Steve, G4HPE, the GB2RS News Manager, on gb2rs.manager@rsgb.org.uk. More information about the RSGB’s news service can be found at rsgb.org/gb2rs.

Following the recent items in The Times (paywall) and on the BBC Radio 4 PM programme about a rise in the use of Morse Code in America, the RSGB contacted BBC Three Counties Radio and arranged an interview for Mervyn Foster, G4KLE. Mervyn is a volunteer at the RSGB National Radio Centre, an RSGB District Representative and a life-long devotee of Morse code. He spoke to Andy Collins on the breakfast show on Friday, 13 January 2023. You can listen to the interview on BBC Sounds (iPlayer sign-in) where it starts at one hour and 53 minutes into the programme.

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